Research areas

Feature / This Q&A outlines why SEI is taking on research to address clean energy access and climate change-related concerns in humanitarian settings.

Feature / Residents of Nairobi's informal settlements are working with SEI and Resilient Planet Initiative partners to develop an app to aid climate adaptation efforts.

Project / The EU Horizon project DIRECTED aims to improve the governance and management of climate disasters across multiple civil society and emergency agencies.

Journal article / This article highlights the benefits of a co-creative, narrative-based methodology used to solicit residents' input for building resilience to floods in Africa.

Project / Adaptation AGORA will support the adaptation to climate change by leveraging and step-forwarding best practices, innovative approaches and policy instruments.

Feature / SEI's Kate Williamson and Rosie Witton discuss new insights about climate change adaptation in mountains, a region of growing policy and research attention.

Feature / The SEI Initiative on Climate Services generated new insights about co-design and co-production proocesses to integrate climate science into adaptation policy.

SEI brief / Climate services can help agriculture in African countries adapt to climate change.

SEI brief / This brief informs adaptation financiers, the broader community of adaptation scholars, and practitioners in their efforts to scale up support for LLA.

Project / The project investigates procedural and distributive equity in decentralised adaptation finance under the Green Climate Fund’s EDA programme

Project / CLIMATEFIT supports innovative financing mechanisms for climate change adaptation by providing key insights into financing sources and strategies.

SEI working paper / This mixed methods systematic review protocol provide a methodological plan for a review that aims to assess the effectiveness of climate adaptation finance.

Journal article / Researchers use experiences and learning from use in three distinct geographical and developmental contexts to create a new Tandem framework.

Journal article / This journal article introduces the Tandem framework to co-design transdisciplinary knowledge integration processes to build resilience to climate change.

Journal article / This article examines theories and methods of engagement to improve communication between scientists and nonscientists.

Tool / Tandem guidance is an interactive, online tool to help scientists and decision-makers collaborate to improve climate change adaptation planning and policies.

Feature / weADAPT upgrades its climate adaptation training with new materials, courses, and toolkits. Improved organization make the most suitable options easier to find.

Tool / weADAPT is SEI's pioneering, user-led platform and network for climate change adaptation.

Tool / The Climate Connectivity Hub a search-and-discovery tool on disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and climate change mitigation.

Feature / The Climate Connectivity Hub is testing new technologies to make it easier to find and use information needed to address the impacts of climate change.

Other publication / This report examines ways for Senegal to use national policies and international cooperation to address the transboundary climate risks it faces.

Other publication / Ten case studies in transboundary climate risk illuminate the blind spots for climate policymaking in this year's report.

Past event / Join us to discuss new evidence on ten transboundary climate risks in Adaptation Without Borders' first flagship report.

Journal article / The Covid-19 pandemic has shown how hard it is to manage a global crisis. What can we learn from the pandemic to help fight climate change and build resilience?

Journal article / This paper aims to improve the coverage of transboundary climate risk in case-study research for adaptation.

Perspective / Climate policies must be better prepared to deal with transboundary climate risks resulting from the cascading effects of both climate hazards and adaptation.

Tool / The Climate Connectivity Hub a search-and-discovery tool on disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and climate change mitigation.

Project / The Maximising UK Adaptation to Climate Change Hub aims to assess how the country can best adapt to extreme weather and other effects of climate change.

SEI brief / SEI's Tandem framework offers guidance to co-design climate services with scientists and intended users as full design partners.

Journal article / This journal article outlines the Risk-Tandem Framework, which uses transdisciplinary knowledge co-production to help address the governance of climate risks.